What do you do for a living?

Or Tony Dong?

High School English teacher (sorry to break up the run of accountants and enginerds.)

Full time student in biology and soccer coach to pay the rent

David & Peter,

Love the suggestions, but I am thinking of going retro-classic for my stage name.

Long Duck Dong….do you remember which movie that was from?

-Tony

Sixteen candles! What do I win?

Nice recall Ike !!!.

Brad

Financial Associate, but former Retail Store Manager.
Duane

Bay Area Sales Rep for Motorola Two-Way Radios, "Walkie Talkies", Wireless Voice & Data

it's right under my name :)

Automotive technician/Classic car mechanic.

If you can call it a profession…Grounds department for a local school district. I work outdoors so I may as well play there too :D

I'm an IT security consultant and I have to travel around the east coast to design and implement security strategies and architecture.

I hate to even admit I'm an engineer now.

Lineman for a So-Cal utility, currently providing in house third party consulting for a large transmission project.

Hmmm, a group of people who will weigh everything in their pack to the smallest part of a gram, put it all in a spreadsheet, and seriously use things like titanium potty trowels?

Yes, it is another episode of Nerds on Parade!

What do you win?

A date with Molly Ringwald. A little older now but the hair is still red.

Aerospace scientist, so yeah guilty as charged…

Before I discovered long distance hiking I was a responsible, upstanding, new construction plumber.
I have also been a forklift mechanic, commercial photo lab printer, garbage truck driver, centerless grinder operator, delivery driver, automotive drive shaft fabricator/ welder, and janitor.
I once worked at Mc Donalds just to save money up to move away with a girl.
I do well with any job, and particularly well in mechanical jobs.
The main issue i have is that I master the job and just get bored to tears.
About 2 years is as long as i can stand the pretense of secondary aims.
Although I did the plumbing thing for over 10 years until the big crash.
I am blue collar working trash.
Currently i am cleaning carpets for a major company and dreaming of the day i can save up enough to hike a long trail once again.
The PCT cost me 5 grand, the CDT about the same, the AT a little less. Basically my goal in life at this moment is to scrape another 5 grand together and take another long walk.
None of this is real. The job, the car, the bills.
Only what happens while walking is real.

Did spend 7 yrs in the army as an imagery analyst spying on other countries, shhhhhhh! After that got into the IT field and I'm now a SQL server and oracle database administrator for a large university here in pittsburgh pa. I'm jealous of anyone who works outdoors for a living

I / E

a.k.a. Instrument Technician / Electrician in a manufacturing plant.

It pays the bills so I can play in the hills. ;-)

Party On,

Newton

Used to be engineer

Now, just a bum : )

Museum Curator and Metal Artist

I think I'm breaking a major trend here, but I'm a full time student double majoring in Classical Studies and Molecular Biology with the hopes of going to medical school. I'm also currently for in a lab focusing on diabetes and obesity research.

I spent most of the last decade carrying heavy packs for a living. Had not thought about the irony so much until this thread appeared.

As of the last year though, even further from being a accountant or engineer, I'm a full time dad with two very small hiking partners.

The expedition Cook is in there, honest…

Actually hired gun, when I think about semi-seriously..

Attorney. Father's a software engineer though, so its in the family.